What a year!!

We've had an amazing year with lots of ups and downs! I haven't posted in a while because I've been overwhelmed working and being a mommy. But now that I'm home for the summer hopefully I can catch everyone up!

I can't believe that Harper is almost one! We've had trouble all year with chronic back to back ear infections. It all started when Harper was around 5 months old we were having trouble with her trying to sit up. So we started going to physical therapy. Physical therapy was going great, every time we went, her therapist was so impressed with how she was improving. She eventually learned how to sit. After a while when Harper was around 8-9 months old, we noticed she was behind on crawling, we continued with the physical therapy and we changed pediatrician's. When we met our new pediatrician she was also concerned with Harper, so she had suggested that she get a chromosomal test done to make sure she had all of her chromosomes and she wasn't missing one or she didn't have an extra one. That was very hard news for us to hear, and it was the longest three weeks of my life to find out the results. Thank God, everything came back negative and normal. We are so blessed. We continued with the physical therapy and by then it was summer time so Harper joined "mommy's boot camp," just kidding, but I seriously had that girl working the moment she would wake up until she went to bed to try and strengthen her muscles to crawl. I also had her in everything possible, gymnastics, swimming lessons, and I constantly tried to keep her active and moving. Well while all of this was going on, like I said, she has had chronic back to back double ear infections. Finally, last Monday at the pediatrician I asked if I could please see an ENT doctor. So they referred me to an ENT and I got spot for this past Friday. When I went in to the appt they did a hearing test on Harper and they said he had had mild hearing loss (which can be recovered with tubes.) I was so upset, but then met with the doctor who said that Harper needed to get tubes in and he needed to get her adenoids removed. I was happy to hear that there might finally be an answer to all of my prayers and that my daughter will start to feel better. I asked the ENT doctor when my pediatrician should have referred me to him and they said after 3 ear infections and my daughter has had more than 9, I lost count! I'm so upset that both pediatrician's did not refer me and because of this she has had mild hearing loss. They said everything Harper hears is as if she was under water. Poor baby! And to top it off the fact my latest Pedi went the route of a chromosome test and not to see an ENT doctor??? Anyways... We had Harper's surgery yesterday and it went very smoothly, the hardest part was watching her come out of her anesthesia. She was kicking, screaming, and flailing her arms. But once she arrived home she recognized her surroundings and she recovered well. And wouldn't you know it, today, the DAY after her surgery my sweet Harper started crawling. Not just once, but all day, all over the house. I'm so happy and I've thanked God repeatedly!

It's been a wonderful year, and we are so blessed to have a beautiful, healthy, sweet daughter. I'm looking forward to what's ahead and I can't wait for many more memories with Harper.